IUCN Status: Near Threatened
EPBC Threat Rating: Moderate
IUCN Claim: “Exotic predators (cats and possibly dogs)’”
Carpentarian dunnarts were among small mammals negatively correlated with cat occupancy (Stobo-Wilson et al. 2020a)
No studies
Cats have been documented among a range of ecological variables
negatively correlated with Carpentarian dunnarts. Causality cannot be
inferred due to confounding variables.
Stobo-Wilson, A. M., et al. “Bottom-up and top-down processes influence contemporary patterns of mammal species richness in Australia’s monsoonal tropics.” Biological Conservation 247 (2020): 108638.
Wallach et al. 2023 In Submission